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Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

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    #1562
    ingalway
    Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭ingalway


    https://twitter.com/StarWarsExplain/status/1333280194082312192?s=20


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    #1563
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    ingalway wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/StarWarsExplain/status/1333280194082312192?s=20

    What the actual f**k is that about???


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    #1564
    Morathi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Morathi


    Apparently Rosario Dawson is being sued by a trans man for alleged abuse or assault, can't remember.

    They congratulated her on her performance in Mando I think.

    Not allowed to praise someone's art, see?

    Especially if they haven't been found guilty of anything. :pac:


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    #1565
    Invidious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Invidious


    "I despise this ‘woke’ movement... It’s become a religious cult." -- John Banville

    https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/john-banville-i-despise-this-woke-movement-its-become-a-religious-cult-39810521.html

    Already being lambasted on Twitter, naturally.


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    #1566
    Morathi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Morathi


    Luckily, I can't imagine Banville paying twitter much attention. I'd be surprised if he's even on it.

    EDIT: He has a lampoon account.


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    #1567
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,528 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Morathi wrote: »
    Luckily, I can't imagine Banville paying twitter much attention. I'd be surprised if he's even on it.

    EDIT: He is! :eek:

    You’d have to wonder is he as boring, in person, as his books.

    The tide is turning…



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    #1568
    Morathi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Morathi


    You got in before my first ninja edit, damn. :pac:

    I've only read The Sea, quite liked it personally, but I remember reading an interview with him in the back of the book. He was a bit of a bollox to the journalist.


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    #1569
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Morathi wrote: »
    You got in before my first ninja edit, damn. :pac:

    I've only read The Sea, quite liked it personally, but I remember reading an interview with him in the back of the book. He was a bit of a bollox to the journalist.

    To be fair, most journalists deserve some attitude directed towards them...


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    #1570
    1800_Ladladlad
    Registered Users Posts: 3,348 ✭✭✭1800_Ladladlad


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    What the actual f**k is that about???

    Its all about rainbows and fcking pronouns hun


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    #1571
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    1800_Ladladlad wrote: »
    Its all about rainbows and fcking pronouns hun

    I’d ask more but I asked why the rainbow laces campaign - which I support - now has a black and brown colour added to the rainbow.

    I’m ignorant and bigoted apparently.


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    #1572
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,816 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Hmmm, rainbows with black in them. Can't say I've seen that.


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    #1573
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,815 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Hmmm, rainbows with black in them. Can't say I've seen that.

    ‘God’ must be racist so... also no pink.... :eek: he’s anti lgbt too, sack him.


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    #1574
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,816 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Strumms wrote: »
    ‘God’ must be racist so... also no pink.... :eek: he’s anti lgbt too, sack him.

    Well he's definitely a homophobe I believe, if his people are anything to go by (albeit a recent facebook article says that it was badly translated and is meant that man shouldn't lie with a boy, which is really common sense but some in the church seem to have taken it to mean the opposite).


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    #1575
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Strumms wrote: »
    ‘God’ must be racist so... also no pink.... :eek: he’s anti lgbt too, sack him.
    :mad: How very dare you! :p


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    #1576
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,815 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    the purple tin wrote: »
    :mad: How very dare you! :p

    Sack me ! No, wait, I QUIT ! :pac:


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    #1577
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users Posts: 7,207 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Invidious wrote: »
    Oh no. Jordan Peterson, arch-nemesis of the woke left, has a new book slated for publication next spring. This must be stopped!



    Tearful woke staff now get to attend town-hall meetings and object to the books their employer plans to publish? This sets a dangerous precedent ... a slippery slope to rampant censorship.
    PRH will still publish the book because it will make them a ton of money.


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    #1578
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Hmmm, rainbows with black in them. Can't say I've seen that.

    Sky Sports all weekend - rainbow as usual this weekend but there’s extra colors added


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    #1579
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,816 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    Sky Sports all weekend - rainbow as usual this weekend but there’s extra colors added

    Let me update my statement:

    Hmmm, rainbows with black in them. Can't say I've seen that in real life.


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    #1580
    Invidious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Invidious


    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    PRH will still publish the book because it will make them a ton of money.

    Of course ... and the woke staffers will have to live with the reality that Jordan Peterson's book is paying their salaries.


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    #1581
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    Sky Sports all weekend - rainbow as usual this weekend but there’s extra colors added


    Only racists see colour - what the hell is a rainbow?:D


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    #1582
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users Posts: 12,199 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Post on a Facebook motoring group this morning, with a link to an article criticising Chinese tyres for being cheap crap.

    The guy who posted it accompanied it with a "trigger warning for casual xenophobia".

    I may or may not have question the use of trigger warnings to prevent grown ass adults from getting all upset by a perfectly reasonable article, and was promptly told off for my priveledge, as someone who could never have experienced racism or xenophobia.


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    #1583
    Morathi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭Morathi


    DrPhilG wrote: »
    Post on a Facebook motoring group this morning, with a link to an article criticising Chinese tyres for being cheap crap.

    The guy who posted it accompanied it with a "trigger warning for casual xenophobia".

    I may or may not have question the use of trigger warnings to prevent grown ass adults from getting all upset by a perfectly reasonable article, and was promptly told off for my priveledge, as someone who could never have experienced racism or xenophobia.


    I love when people hit me with that. I remind them of the years I lived in Japan and experienced racism first hand.

    I also tell about how I didn't take it personally and that arseholes exist in all creeds and colours.


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    #1584
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users Posts: 12,199 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Morathi wrote: »
    I love when people hit me with that. I remind them of the years I lived in Japan and experienced racism first hand.

    I also tell about how I didn't take it personally and that arseholes exist in all creeds and colours.

    He's a group admin too lol. Ban incoming...


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    #1585
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    DrPhilG wrote: »
    Post on a Facebook motoring group this morning, with a link to an article criticising Chinese tyres for being cheap crap.

    The guy who posted it accompanied it with a "trigger warning for casual xenophobia".
    Though a blanket statement on my part I have found this to be true: anyone who uses the term "trigger warning" in earnest and without irony is a mental defective.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #1586
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Though a blanket statement on my part I have found this to be true: anyone who uses the term "trigger warning" in earnest and without irony is a mental defective.

    I told my niece that I’d studied Macbeth at school as she wasn’t doing Shakespeare and I’d asked why.

    “There were too many triggers”.

    All those Thanes and lads called Banquo in a Manchester school getting PTSD eh ?


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    #1587
    km991148
    Registered Users Posts: 4,275 ✭✭✭km991148


    But this whole thread is trigger central :pac: :confused: :pac:


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    #1588
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    There's a difference between being puzzled or exasperated because of the words and actions of some oft attention seeking offence mongers out there and being so emotionally frail that the slightest thing will "trigger" a negative emotional response.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #1589
    Gervais08
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Wibbs wrote: »
    There's a difference between being puzzled or exasperated because of the words and actions of some oft attention seeking offence mongers out there and being so emotionally frail that the slightest thing will "trigger" a negative emotional response.

    ‘‘Tis true!


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    #1590
    Invidious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Invidious


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    I told my niece that I’d studied Macbeth at school as she wasn’t doing Shakespeare and I’d asked why.

    “There were too many triggers”.

    All those Thanes and lads called Banquo in a Manchester school getting PTSD eh ?

    And yet many of the woke generation, while demanding trigger warnings on classic works of literature, will happily sit through Game of Thrones' endless depictions of executions, incest, mass battles, violent hand-to-hand combat, rape, slavery, castration, torture, poisoning, human sacrifice, witchcraft, and so on. It's nuts.


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    #1591
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,671 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    I told my niece that I’d studied Macbeth at school as she wasn’t doing Shakespeare and I’d asked why.

    “There were too many triggers”.

    All those Thanes and lads called Banquo in a Manchester school getting PTSD eh ?


    Everyone should at some point study the works of Shakespeare, even outside of the school curriculum. If not for the many quotable soliloquys, then for sheer entertainment value alone!

    Lady Macbeth’s “Unsex me here” and Cassius’ “While we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonourable graves”, or Caesar’s own opinions of “sleek headed men”... classic :D

    I suppose at some point you’d get around to understanding the historical context, but that doesn’t spoil the enjoyment.


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